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Striker Long comforted his team-mate on the pitch and is confident that he will return to his best after what promises to be a lengthy lay-off. Long said: "I think he has got it done to him before, so I suppose he went in anxious about the challenge". Read More

ABOUT THE CANUCKS (29-35-9): Vancouver officially was eliminated from playoff contention with Thursday's 4-1 setback in St. Louis, the 11th time in the last 15 games the team has failed to score more than two goals. Boeser then scored to make it 3-0. That set up Boeser's tally, as he drove the net on a Bo Horvat rush, stopped on the puck in the crease, and tapped home a rebound for his first goal as a pro. Read More

But teams have figured out they can double-team Happ and make the Badgers try something else, and it seems like these last few games have been decided by if the Badgers can score when teams make Happ less of a factor. Following two Nigel Hayes free throws, the Gators trailed 83-81 with just 4 seconds left. They beat Virginia Tech 84-74 as a 6-point favorite in the opening round, then pulled off one of the bigger upsets on the tournament by knocking off defending champion Villanova 65-62 as a ... Read More

It was a strong finish for a team that was 14-9 in early February. Following the first weekend of March Madness, CBS Sports published a story about how MI may be 2017's best sports story so far. local time in Eugene, Oregon . The game went back and forth, with neither team grabbing more than a six-point lead. OR was led by Tyler Dorsey's 20 points. Read More

This year the Dominican Republic lost to the U.S. But it likely will make 2021 a lot of fun either way. That is what this tournament is about, and that's why everyone loves it, because you get to see people play (in front of) people from their own country and the different styles of baseball. Read More

The wicket was good to bat on, the ball was not turning match. Glenn Maxwell, who scored a century in Ranchi, tried to hit Kuldeep out of the attack but India's debutant was in no mood to be intimidated and got his man with an unplayable googly . Read More

Information obtained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation suggests that President Trump's associates coordinated with Russian agents during the election season, potentially for the goal of coordinating on the release of information about the Hillary Clinton campaign, according to a report out Wednesday night from CNN . Read More

That put us in that position as well. Top star: Let's hear it for Florida's KeVaughn Allen . Chiozza's game-winner sent the fourth-seeded Gators (27-8) into Sunday's final against seventh-seeded SC in an all-Southeastern Conference matchup. Read More

Atlanta has dropped six straight. Turning point: The Bucks blew the game open in the second quarter, using a 16-4 run to take a 45-32 lead. Malcolm Brogdon had 14 points and seven assists and Tony Snell added 13 points. Greg Monroe scored a pair of key baskets for the Bucks in the final minute, both assisted by Brogdon. As has been the case more often than not over the past month, the Milwaukee Bucks did what they needed to do on Friday night. Read More

But Wisconsin kept fighting and cut Florida's lead to 72-69 on an Ethan Happ layup with 44 ticks hanging on the clock. So Showalter just ran forward, slightly stumbling, and haphazardly hurled the ball toward the net. It's a common debate in basketball - do you foul when you're up three late in the game? The 2017 Elite Eight has been set following Friday's regional semifinal action in the NCAA Tournament. Read More

Staying at UCLA. I am happy. I love it here. Love it here. Have a great class coming in, and brand-new practice facility. We're opening a brand new, state-of-the-art, $60 million-plus practice facility that's going to be spectacular that we've worked really hard to be a part of that, and I want to see that through. Read More

Kunin assisted on Matt Ustaski's game-tying power-play goal in the third period, while accounting for four of Wisconsin's 52 shots on goal against Penn State. "We refer to him as a gamer because of his competitiveness and willingness to get involved, and the fact that he cannot only score goals but also be relied on defensively and play in a lot of different situations", he said previous year. Read More

When asked who McGregor should face before Mayweather, Arum challenged the 28-year-old to fight Tim Ibarra, who suffered a third-round TKO loss to Conlan this past weekend. And that's where Conor McGregor is. If it's a fight, I would f**king kill him. This is as reported by Sports Joe . Leonard stated that he is not entirely sure that McGregor could remain strictly within the "Queensberry Rules" against Mayweather Jr, implying that the Dubliner may land a kick on the boxer inside the ... Read More

In a series filled with surprises, India sprang another one in Dharmasala by handing a debut to left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav. Going into the final Test, the hosts will be hoping to have a 100 percent fit captain Virat Kohli after the shoulder injury he suffered during the third Test in Ranchi. Read More

A statue of the former winger will also be placed next to the stadium. A day after the one-year anniversary of the Dutchman's death, the Blaugrana made an announcement that they would be paying a series of tributes to Cruyff. Johan Cruyff was one of Barcelona's greatest ever players and coaches, winning 13 trophies in all including the club's first ever European Cup as coach in 1992. Read More

IN is hiring Archie Miller as the Hoosiers' next head coach. Miller, 38, is 139-63 at Dayton, his first-head coaching job, and has guided the Flyers to four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Miller will now look to revive a Hoosiers program that finished 18-16 and missed the NCAA tournament this season. He will replace Tom Crean, who was sacked at IN after the season. Read More

But Bryant had only words of admiration for O'Neal, who joined the Lakers in 1996 and won National Basketball Association titles with the club in 2000, 2001 and 2002. The legendary center managed to roast Bryant and O'Neal in one swift jab. "We had our battles, we had our times but we always had respect for each other". Read More

Saban's Patriots tangent was sparked by a question from a reporter that mentioned Daboll and his expected influence on the offense. "People who scream the loudest, they kind of get the attention and we pass a rule that everybody has to live with or some law and the consequences mess up a lot of other things". Read More

Ahead of the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which starts on Saturday, Australian cricketers like Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell, David Warner and Nathan Lyon were granted an audience by His Holiness . There was nothing perfunctory about the trip to Dalai Lama temple, a tourist destination that draws visitors of all ages, backgrounds, races and religions to the foot of the Himalayas. Read More

First he dismissed David Warner to end a rapid century stand with Smith, then he got one to drift away before spinning in to have Peter Handscomb bowled and followed that up with a ideal wrong 'un to send back Glenn Maxwell. Bhuvneshwar Kumar , replacing fellow paceman Ishant Sharma, swung the first ball of the match to induce an edge from Warner but Karun Nair spilled it at third slip. Read More

But they did a good job of bumping me and slowing me down. "That was the only shot I had, so I had to take that one". Hayes has always been an interesting player to look at - he's got great size to play in the post, but it always seems to me like he could be more active there. Read More

Hamilton said he was still anxious about the threat posed by Ferrari, who improved considerably in the second session. "It's still very early days yet and we have still only one (Spanish) circuit for testing and quite winter conditions". Hamilton's times were five seconds quicker than in 2016. What about Red Bull? "When I get here I look under my toilet seat every single day, just in case there's one of those damn things". Read More

De Biasi had warned the Renato Barbera stadium in Palermo would be heavily attended by fans keen to follow his side following their historic, major finals appearance at Euro 2016 last summer. Serbia moved to the top of Group D after coming from behind to see off Georgia 3-1 in Tbilisi. Defeat saw Israel slip four points behind the two Group G heavyweights with five games left to play and only the pool winners guaranteed a place at Russian Federation 2018. Read More

Hernandez scored 37 goals in 103 Premier League appearances for Manchester United before he was shipped out on loan to Real Madird by Louis van Gaal two years ago. The top three finishers will go to the World Cup, with the fourth-place team needing a play-in win. The fifth stage of selection for the players Oscar Ramirez started just fine, and the Costa Rican national team scored two victories over Trinidad and Tobago 0: 2 and 4: 0 over the USA and is still the leader of their group. Read More

Vettel lapped 0.268 seconds slower than Hamilton during qualifying, which was enough to relegate the second Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas for third. Rosberg's absence could reignite the rivalry between Hamilton, 32, and 29-year-old Sebastian Vettel - the two top drivers of their generation - particularly with Ferrari performing well in pre-season testing. Read More

They will assess if their new stadium will be built in time before activating their option to play games at England's national stadium, and have until March 31 to decide. She also confirmed that Tottenham had considered other venues. "We looked at MK Dons' Stadium", she said. "I'm not sure I'm in a position to reach a conclusion". Read More

The investigation that the National Basketball Players Association launched found that there was no malice from Noah. Noah will be suspended for 10 games this season and then the first 10 games of the 2017-18 season, according to the source. Read More

Giovinazzi was deputized in the first test but Wehrlein returned for the second week, completing four half-days of running. Wehrlein missed the first pre-season test at Barcelona after hurting his back in a crash at the Race of Champions in January. Read More

Having not yet set a time in Q3, Ricciardo will start the first round of the 2017 F1 season from tenth position, a result he was disappointed with largely because he couldn't explain why he lost control. It's all positive support and it's quite overwhelming actually; I'm surprised by how many people are getting behind me, it's really cool. I hear ticket sales are up quite a bit from a year ago as well. Read More

Vettel's teammate, Kimi Raikkonen was in fourth place and the only driver within a second of pace-setter Hamilton's marker. "I see Ferrari being the quickest at the moment and I think they will definitely be the favourites". Fernando Alonso's trials continued with McLaren, with the Spaniard able to drag his vehicle to 13th on the grid - a far higher position than it might have managed had anyone else been at the wheel. Read More

I haven't gotten a pole since my rookie season. He had the top spot with a lap of 186.979 until Larson recorded his fast lap and beat him by 0.014 seconds. While Larson would love to get his first win in California, this race also looms large for Hamlin, who has never won at Fontana - and almost lost much more than a race. Read More

Since the device was introduced, so I do not think there will be many changes in this sense as the philosophy of the auto remains the same. We were not able to push the auto to anywhere close to the limit at any lap on the testing, due to different problems. Read More

Hundreds of people attended a Requiem Mass at St Columba's Long Tower Catholic Church earlier today. McBride, whose tough tackling and committed performances made him a fan favourite, had played more than 170 league matches for Derry - more than 50 as captain - since joining in 2011. Read More

On a night that has its place in Suns lore, some other great scoring performances deserve to be remembered. Phoenix is a young team, so young that they recently broke the National Basketball Association record for the youngest starting lineup in league history earlier this week. Read More

With Matthew Renshaw falling for just one run, Smith found himself at the crease sooner than he would've liked but didn't pass up the opportunity to add more runs in the sub-continent. However, the tempo that he had set in the first phase was lost as he ran out of partners in the second session. He had to curb his strokeplay once Warner was out and then another senior Shaun Marsh (4) got one into his rib cage from Umesh only to offer an easy leg-side catch to Wriddhiman Saha. Read More

What factors would you say have played a key part in Wisconsin's Sweet 16 run during this NCAA Tournament? Following two Nigel Hayes free throws, the Gators trailed 83-81 with just 4 seconds left. And the Badgers were the most impressive of all the Big Ten squads in the NCAA tourney. "I was going to pass, but I was really going to the rim". When they need a bucket they have more than one guy they can go to down the stretch as we saw on Saturday against Villanova. Read More

Walton finished with 20, Irvin 19 and Wilson 12 for MI. Dorsey, the man the Ducks call "Mr. March", had his sixth straight game scoring 20 or more points. When you have two forwards who can shoot and are a threat to take players off the dribble like MI does, you sacrifice your inside presence. Jordan Bell who now leads the Ducks with 8.1 rebounds per game and averages 2.1 blocks is tasked with stepping up for Boucher. Read More

Even if the Welsh do pick up their second win of the campaign, inflicting Ireland's first defeat in the process, the fixture list has been kind to O'Neill's side. 'I don't have any problem with that. I absolutely want that again. I do. Former Manchester United, Leeds and Ireland midfielder Johnny Giles had earlier this week questioned the pedigree of Real Madrid's ex-Tottenham forward Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey of Arsenal. Read More

It will be the fifth trip to the White House for the Patriots. The Patriots would go on to complete the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, coming back from 25 points down to beat the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in Houston. The Super Bowl victory was the Patriots second in three years. Martellus Bennett, Alan Branch, Devin McCourty, Dont'a Hightower, LeGarrette Blount, and Chris Long are among the names of players that have already opted out of the annual visit. Read More

With the wind whipping at Austin Country Club, McGirt remained steady with his grind-it-out style in the hard conditions, earning a 2-and-1 victory over Branden Grace to vault to the top of the group with a 2-0 record. "I'm going to go up to Augusta and play a couple of practice rounds next week". The pair made the turn with Spieth 2-up before he stuck his tee shot to within 18 inches on the par-3 11th and tapped in for birdie to win the hole. Read More